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- An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199375941
ISBN-13
9780199375943
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18050031837
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Publication Name
Unholy Brew : Alcohol in Indian History and Religions
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Subject
General, Customs & Traditions
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
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1.2 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
6 in
Item Width
8.9 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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2021-027066
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"What McHugh presents is not just a survey, but an animated adventure into the celestial realms and abysmal netherworlds of a little-known aspect of India's cultural history, with celestial dancers (apsarasas) and celestial musicians (gandharvas) partaking in divine spirits (surÄ), and a variety of demons (rÄká¹£asas) in their natural drunken habitats." -- Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA, Asian Medicine 17"James McHugh has done it again. After his widely acclaimed book on smell, Sandalwood and Carrion, he has now given us another gem. In An Unholy Brew, McHugh provides a thematically and chronologically comprehensive account of alcohol in Indian history: technologies of production, cultural appropriations and attitudes, and religious uses and censures. A book for both the ale lover and the teetotaler." -- Patrick Olivelle, Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas at Austin, "James McHugh has done it again. After his widely acclaimed book on smell, Sandalwood and Carrion, he has now given us another gem. In An Unholy Brew, McHugh provides a thematically and chronologically comprehensive account of alcohol in Indian history: technologies of production, cultural appropriations and attitudes, and religious uses and censures. A book for both the ale lover and the teetotaler." -- Patrick Olivelle, Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas at Austin, "What McHugh presents is not just a survey, but an animated adventure into the celestial realms and abysmal netherworlds of a little-known aspect of India's cultural history, with celestial dancers (apsarasas) and celestial musicians (gandharvas) partaking in divine spirits (sura), and a variety of demons (rakasas) in their natural drunken habitats." -- Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA, Asian Medicine 17"James McHugh has done it again. After his widely acclaimed book on smell, Sandalwood and Carrion, he has now given us another gem. In An Unholy Brew, McHugh provides a thematically and chronologically comprehensive account of alcohol in Indian history: technologies of production, cultural appropriations and attitudes, and religious uses and censures. A book for both the ale lover and the teetotaler." -- Patrick Olivelle, Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas at Austin, "What McHugh presents is not just a survey, but an animated adventure into the celestial realms and abysmal netherworlds of a little-known aspect of India's cultural history, with celestial dancers (apsarasas) and celestial musicians (gandharvas) partaking in divine spirits (sura), and a variety of demons (rakasas) in their natural drunken habitats." -- Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA, Asian Medicine 17 "James McHugh has done it again. After his widely acclaimed book on smell, Sandalwood and Carrion, he has now given us another gem. In An Unholy Brew, McHugh provides a thematically and chronologically comprehensive account of alcohol in Indian history: technologies of production, cultural appropriations and attitudes, and religious uses and censures. A book for both the ale lover and the teetotaler." -- Patrick Olivelle, Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas at Austin, "What McHugh presents is not just a survey, but an animated adventure into the celestial realms and abysmal netherworlds of a little-known aspect of India's cultural history, with celestial dancers (apsarasas) and celestial musicians (gandharvas) partaking in divine spirits (sur=a), and a variety of demons (r=ak.sasas) in their natural drunken habitats." -- Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA, Asian Medicine 17"James McHugh has done it again. After his widely acclaimed book on smell, Sandalwood and Carrion, he has now given us another gem. In An Unholy Brew, McHugh provides a thematically and chronologically comprehensive account of alcohol in Indian history: technologies of production, cultural appropriations and attitudes, and religious uses and censures. A book for both the ale lover and the teetotaler." -- Patrick Olivelle, Professor Emeritus, The University ofTexas at Austin, James McHugh has done it again. After his widely acclaimed book on smell, Sandalwood and Carrion, he has now given us another gem. In An Unholy Brew, McHugh provides a thematically and chronologically comprehensive account of alcohol in Indian history: technologies of production, cultural appropriations and attitudes, and religious uses and censures. A book for both the ale lover and the teetotaler.
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An
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
394.130954
Table Of Content
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAperitif - Sura, the Prototypical Liquor of IndiaROUND ONE: DRINKS AND DRINKINGCup One: Sura Made From GrainsCup Two: Sugarcane, Wine, Toddy, and Other DrinksCup Three: Sura Brewing and Public DrinkingCup Four: Luxurious, Erotic Drinking in Literary TextsCup Five: Drink, Health, and Disease in Ayurvedic TextsROUND TWO: DRINK AND RELIGIONCup Six: Drink in Ritual, Myths, and EpicCup Seven: The Filth of Grain and the Pain of Drink: Morality, Vice, and LawCup Eight: Sura Regained: Drink in TantraCup Nine: Firewater and Corpse-Reviver: Alcohol in Later Sanskrit SourcesDigestif: What Do We Do About This Stuff That Makes Everything Go Awry?Appendix: Soma, Ancient Drugs, and Modern ScholarsBibliography
Synopsis
The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE.Books about the global history of alcohol almost never give attention to India. But a wide range of texts provide plenty of evidence that there was a thriving culture of drinking in ancient and medieval India, from public carousing at the brewery and drinking house to imbibing at festivals and weddings. There was also an elite drinking culture depicted in poetic texts (often in an erotic mode), and medical texts explain how to balance drink and health. By no means everyone drank, however, and there were many sophisticated religious arguments for abstinence.McHugh begins by surveying the intoxicating drinks that were available, including grain beers, palm toddy, and imported wine, detailing the ways people used grains, sugars, fruits, and herbs over the centuries to produce an impressive array of liquors. He presents myths that explain how drink came into being and how it was assigned the ritual and legal status it has in our time. The book also explores Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain moral and legal texts on drink and abstinence, as well as how drink is used in some Tantric rituals, and translates in full a detailed description of the goddess Liquor, Suradevi. Cannabis, betel, soma, and opium are also considered. Finally, McHugh investigates what has happened to these drinks, stories, and theories in the last few centuries.An Unholy Brew brings to life the overlooked, complex world of brewing, drinking, and abstaining in pre-modern India, and offers illuminating case studies on topics such as law and medicine, even providing recipes for some drinks., The first book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore intoxicating drinks and styles of drinking, as well as sophisticated rationales for abstinence found in South Asia from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE., Books about the global history of alcohol almost never give attention to India. But a wide range of texts provide plenty of evidence that there was a thriving culture of drinking in ancient and medieval India, from public carousing at the brewery and drinking house to imbibing at festivals and weddings. There was also an elite drinking culture depicted in poetic texts (often in an erotic mode), and medical texts explain how to balance drink and health. Not everyone drank, however, and there were sophisticated religious arguments for abstinence. The first book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE. McHugh begins by surveying the intoxicating drinks that were available, including grain beers, palm toddy, and imported wine, detailing the ways people used grains, sugars, fruits, and herbs over the centuries to produce an impressive array of liquors. He outlines myths and epics that explain how drink came into being and how it was assigned the ritual and legal status it has in our time. The book also explores Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain moral and legal texts on drink and abstinence, as well as how drink is used in some Tantric rituals, and translates in full a detailed description of the goddess Liquor, Sura, Cannabis, betel, soma, and opium are also considered. Finally, McHugh investigates what has happened to these drinks, stories, and theories in the last few centuries.An Unholy Brew brings to life the overlooked, complex world of brewing, drinking, and abstaining in pre-modern India, and offers illuminating case studies on topics such as law and medicine, even providing recipes for some drinks., The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE. Books about the global history of alcohol almost never give attention to India. But a wide range of texts provide plenty of evidence that there was a thriving culture of drinking in ancient and medieval India, from public carousing at the brewery and drinking house to imbibing at festivals and weddings. There was also an elite drinking culture depicted in poetic texts (often in an erotic mode), and medical texts explain how to balance drink and health. By no means everyone drank, however, and there were many sophisticated religious arguments for abstinence. McHugh begins by surveying the intoxicating drinks that were available, including grain beers, palm toddy, and imported wine, detailing the ways people used grains, sugars, fruits, and herbs over the centuries to produce an impressive array of liquors. He presents myths that explain how drink came into being and how it was assigned the ritual and legal status it has in our time. The book also explores Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain moral and legal texts on drink and abstinence, as well as how drink is used in some Tantric rituals, and translates in full a detailed description of the goddess Liquor, Suradevi. Cannabis, betel, soma, and opium are also considered. Finally, McHugh investigates what has happened to these drinks, stories, and theories in the last few centuries. An Unholy Brew brings to life the overlooked, complex world of brewing, drinking, and abstaining in pre-modern India, and offers illuminating case studies on topics such as law and medicine, even providing recipes for some drinks.
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